What gives meaning to life in the afterlife?

What's the point of eternal life? I see no logic at all in the concept other to give hope to people scared of death. Wouldn't it become boring after a few millennium?

1st: There is no way to argue this Q on the basis of general human experience. Some individuals have had experiences that could provide adequate explanation but its doubtful anyone would believe the accounts.

2nd: I reject this premise as not conforming to logic "if life without an afterlife is meaningless" The afterlife is not a phenomenon but a belief. As such it isn't possible for it to directly inform the life of any individual who doesn't believe in an afterlife. However, we see many people who do not believe in an afterlife leading what appear to be purposeful lives. Some of the largest philanthropists are agnostics, some atheists.

3rd: your syllogism supposes that life as we know it is no different from life after death. Most religions describe life after death in terms quite different from the terms of life as we know it.

4th: The meaning of an afterlife is precisely linked to its never ending for the large majority of those who believe in an afterlife. (Why believe in an afterlife if it too will end. That actually would be a form of belief in reincarnation.)

For some Christians the afterlife is where we are all intended to be after our earthly existence. It is the plan of the Creator. For the Christian it must be good, even if they have no experience of it. Jesus said there were many mansions there. What his hearers understood by the expression He used may not coincide with what we think those words might mean. Christians of today generally understand this statement to mean there is plenty of "room" in heaven.

Some Christians have reflected on this question & have concluded that apprehending God to the maximum of our human ability will fill us in all the ways that a human craves to be filled & that the experience of being so filled will bring joy to us to an unimaginable degree. Some believe the OT perspective that "seeing the face of God would amount to a death sentence" arose because apprehending the glory of God would make us pine for the perpetuation of that apprehension to the point where we wouldn't live anymore. There are Christian mystics who seem to have reached this point, stopped eating normal meals but inexplicably lived on for many years. I don't know about you but that doesn't sound like something that bored these people & I doubt any experience faintly of this sort could ever prove boring.

If you are a fanatic for skydiving I think eternity with God will be like a never-ending, never slowing free-fall.

The cold reality is that human concepts & language can never approximate what is eternal & omnipotent.

There is a story associated with Thomas Aquinas that relates he had a vision after which he said his most extensive work of theology was straw by comparison to the truth of God. Aquinas had stature in his day that no one has ever achieved since where theological discourse is concerned. Yet he never wrote another word after the experience.

In the vision on the mount Peter was of the mind that the status quo should be preserved; hence "let us build three shelters"

I hope you get the idea even if in only a small way.

I'm having trouble finding meaning in this life without having to speculate about finding meaning in an afterlife.

There is one of two things that will happen to you when you die. You will cease to exist (Period)

Or there will be something that neither you or any human can imagine.

I believe I will cease to exist or, there will be something I can't even begin to imagine.

I personally pray to the Spirit we call God for reincarnation to live my life over to make up for the mistakes I have made and regretted so much.

So, either way, I will win. Then where is Hell?

Think about it --- right here on Earth! (Read Dantes 'Inferno')

the same one who gives life here

You shall never Die

partly, the fact that you are at last in your home